Please Eat the Flowers

[3] And of course the classic way to use edible flowers is to sprinkle them lavishly into salads. Violas, with their tender sweet faces, are especially pretty this way.

Soon our gardens will be bursting over with warm-season plants, and there are many more edible flowers awaiting your culinary creativity.  Roses.  Daylilies. Calendula.  Dianthus. Tuberous begonias (my personal favorite). And later on, chrysanthemums. Look for more ideas in the next newsletters.